Yvonne Hubert (28 May 18958 June 1988) was a

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-born

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pianist and pedagogue. Considered one of the most eminent professors of Canada, for her strong personality, inexhaustible energy and exceptional quality of her teaching, Yvonne Hubert deeply influenced her students by giving them a strong technical background, and so enriched musical life in Montreal and Canada.

Biography

Hubert was born in

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in 1895. She began her musical studies at the Conservatory of Lille, where she won the first prize for piano in 1906. Her remarkable talent attracted the attention of

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, and

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. She enrolled at the

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in 1906, first studying piano with

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and later in 1908, with Alfred Cortot. She also studied chamber music with

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and theory with

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. She won first prize for piano at the Paris Conservatoire in 1911. Under the tutelage of Fauré, who entrusted her with the first performances of several of his works, she began a career as a soloist and chamber musician in France, Belgium, Canada and the United States, and also accompanied her brother, cellist Marcel Hubert. In 1926, she moved to

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and in 1929 and founded the Alfred Cortot School of Piano, to promote the French tradition, and in particular the method of Cortot. From 1945 to 1970 she taught at the

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. She also taught at the École de musique Vincent d'Indy from 1952 to 1979. Her students, many of whom have won national and international competitions, included: Henri Brassard, Philip Cohen,

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, Michel Dussault, Marc Durand,

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, Lorraine Prieur, William Tritt,

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, Claude Labelle, Gérald Lévesque,

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, Suzanne Blondin, Suzanne Goyette, Serge Garant, Gilles Manny and Ronald Turini.

Honours

* 1979 - Medal of the Canadian Music Council * 1979 - Honorary Diploma of the Canadian Conference of the Arts * 1981 - Honorary LLD from

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, Montreal * 1987 - Price Calixa-Lavallée * 1989 - The Place des Arts named its largest rehearsal room in her honour.

References

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